🕒 14 days ago
Provide person-centred care and practical support to older and vulnerable people, helping them remain in their own homes through personal care, household tasks, and companionship.
Weekend Care Assistant
📅 Mar 2
Home CareCompanionshipPersonal CareMedication Administration
📜 Description
- Support clients to live safely and well at home as a regular companion.
- Help with personal care, including bathing and dressing.
- Support clients with medication routines and meal preparation.
- Help arrange appointments, such as GP visits.
- Accompany clients on outings, including shopping and visits to local coffee shops.
- Learn to use specialist equipment when supporting clients with long-term health conditions.
🛠️ Requirements
- Previous care experience is required.
- Reliable transport, typically a car, is required to travel between clients.
✨ Benefits
- Platform
- Pension Scheme
- Home help- to support our clients to live safe and well at home
- Personal care- bathing and help to dress/ undress
- Medication administration- supporting our clients to have a routine with their medication
- Meal preparation
- Making appointments - for example with the GP
- Taking the clients out- shopping, local coffee shop
Full job description
Company Description
Home Instead (Altrincham, Sale and Wythenshawe) require Weekend Care Assistants with previous care experience who share our values of providing the highest quality care delivered with genuine kindness.
We are a home care provider and for this reason we do require people who have their own reliable transport, typically a car, so you can easily go from client to client within the area.
What's on offer?
- £14.60- £15.60 per hour from 1st April 2026
- Minimum 1 hour visits with clients
- Careful client matching to help build relationships
- Working pattern Friday, Saturday Sunday or Saturday Sunday Monday
- We offer PAID DBS, PAID Training , PAID Mileages
- Free Employee Assistance Programme
- Home Instead Benefits platform
- Pension Scheme
As a weekend care assistant you will support clients to live well at home as their regular companion.
- Home help- to support our clients to live safe and well at home
- personal care- bathing and help to dress/ undress
- medication administration- supporting our clients to have a routine with their medication
- meal preparation
- making appointments - for example with the GP
- taking the clients out- shopping, local coffee shop
Some of our clients have long term health conditions and along with support for their personal care, medications and help around the home, we will train you in the use of specialist equipment.
This is a great opportunity to learn new skills while delivering the best quality care and working weekend hours that suit you.
Job Description
Qualifications
Additional Information
If you are based locally and drive, and believe in delivering care that goes beyond the ordinary, we'd love to hear from you. Click apply or call the office 0161 870 1136 or call Lisa 07825 440630 to discuss our part time opportunities in care.
Follow our Facebook page for more information www.facebook.com/HomeInsteadAltrincham/
This role is subject to DBS Enhanced disclosure and successful
Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. We’re actively building diverse teams from our local community. We do not have a licence to sponsor overseas Visas at this time.
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